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Puck is a weekly webcomic that, in the words of one fan, is "mostly irreverent humor concerning a pretty girl with freckles and a hot she-devil who wears fan-service costumes." Surreal fantasy slice-of-life crazy-type stuff about the world's funniest redhead! Updates Tuesday.

Hey, we’re actually at the point where we’re heading to Canada’s Funderland! It only took a month to get there! Sometimes I worry about the pace being too slow for the comic, but then I read a newspaper comic like ‘Between Friends’ (which I actually quite like), and I see Susan deciding whether to eat a piece of cake at a restaurant for twelve straight strips (okay, it was only four comics, but it felt like twelve), and I think to myself, “I ain’t doin’ so bad.”

My wife gave a big ‘thumbs up’ for Puck’s outfit here, which always means I’m on the right track. I didn’t to manage to get any reaction from her regarding Phoebe’s outfit, though which means one of two things: she’s growing inured to my nonsense, or I’m losing my touch.

I am more annoyed that the daughter of Satan does not go driving around town in a car from hell like either a ’58 Plymouth Fury, a ’76 Ford Pinto or a Porsche 550 Spyder (Although the 550 can’t be blamed for the accident that gave it fame…)

Nah, she drives a normal car. When I decided what car they’d drive, I planned around the type of car that girls like Phoebe actually drive, but a Pinto would have been probably a more poetically appropriate choice.

This one of those cartoons about Puck’s abysmal parenting skills? Should not the crazy parenting brigade go wild about Puck not having her kid in a reward facing baby seat in the front passenger’s side ?

Of course, when I was growing up, you had the the baby in the back seat, rode a bike without a helmet, and walked by yourself to school each day…

Nowadays, you wonder how did we survive to see double digit ages as kids with the uneducated parents we had growing up…

Well, the kid is definitely in a car seat, and the car seat is rear-facing, but at least around here, putting the car seat in the front passenger side is a HUGE no no. The air bag can seriously endanger the kid, even with a car seat present, so the rule is a rear-facing car seat on the passenger side in the BACK seat. And trust me, riding squished up next to a car seat sucks.

Both my girlfriend and I are used to Phoebe’s (borderline) impossible clothes (we both love stuff that defies the laws of physics). Or we’re just used to non-sensical stuff. I dunno.
However, I do have a question about Miranda: did you decide from the start they’d have a daughter or was it just a spur-of-the-moment thing? Just curious!
As for the comic you mentioned (I have never heard of it personally), it did remind me of one I read a while back (I forgot the name), in which the main character took 6 strips (in a row) to decide if he should punch a person in the face or just ignore him. It ended with said guy being punched in the face by another character. I was like “…And people find this funny because…?” So, no, your tempo is perfectly fine (at least you show what happens before they go there – not just go ‘YEP THEY’RE TOTALLY THERE ALREADY AND HEY, TYLER IS HERE AS WELL, WHY IS HE? I DUNNO HE JUST IS’).

There was a bit of a debate in my household about the gender of the child. But my wife said this: “If you make the kid a boy, then it could potentially alter the very fabric of the comic’s dynamic in a major way. If you make the kid a girl, it’s going to be basically status quo.” That made the answer easy.

And I did consider suddenly jumping to the amusement park, but that felt … rushed.

It’s PCDM-631. Which, if you want the hidden meaning, stands for ‘Puck, Colin, Daphne, Miranda’ and Puck’s current(ish) age of 631. Though it’s not a vanity plate; that’s just the weird logic I used to come up with that. And it’s a green ’99 Chevy Malibu. It’s a car I know well. I drove it for over a decade. It died on me a few years ago. I mourn its passing, but I get to rekindle my bond through this comic.

True. To be honest, my VW Jetta classification for Tracee predated the revelation that she was a … fan of money and those with money, shall we say. If Tracee were buying a car on her own steam, it would probably be a Jetta. Now, though, with Tracee having access to Satan’s coffers? Any of your suggestions would probably be more accurate.

I wish I could really take the credit on the backgrounds, but the backgrounds are reused from a comic I did over three years ago. The first panel has the same bg, but I’ve warped the vectors to vaguely make it work with the shot. It still doesn’t, really, which is why the second vanishing point is behind Puck’s head when it really should be off the panel. (That’s why I added the citrus-y colors in that panel: to try and mask the perspective flub.)

Seriously, I’m SUPER LAZY, But if it’s not evident at a glance, then I’m happy.

Pucks pretty brave taking off with the whole crew for the day with a crackhouse next door. Although i suppose even the sketchy clientele that frequent it would think twice about robbing Puck….maybe. I hear that stuff does make users very stupid.

Yeah, to be honest, I’ve known people who live in these neighborhoods, and while they can be actually quite nice in some respects (affordable property values, nice people), the big negative is certainly the fact that you get robbed. A lot. For storytelling purposes, I don’t think Puck and company are going to suffer that fate any time soon, though in reality it’d be a pretty common occurrence.

I keep waiting for Phoebe to pull a Linda Blair (a la Exorcist, not her later moves) but it never happens.

Apart from her father being the Prince of Darkness, she seems like a pretty nice, normal gal.

BTW, peerless author, if you like semi-fantasy with a weird theological twist (which is what considering the Puck series got me thinking about,) try getting your hands on two books by James Morrow – “Towing Jehovah” and “Blameless in Abaddon” – damnedest stories…

There are two things noone mentioned in the comments, therefore I would be remiss in my duties were I to let them go unmentioned.
Firstly: Why did Daphne let her hearts get so low when she has a fairy handy?
Secondly: Phoebe is a pair of spandex pants, and thigh high boots with 6 inch stiletto heels away from being a X-Man